In 2007 Saffia published Revolution Baby: Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan, a humorous look at the three years she spent living in Kyrgyzstan, pregnant and then with a young baby. Revolution Baby has been well received, described by Katie Hickman, author of Daughters of Britannia as “equally, if not more, entertaining than a regular travel book”.
Saffia’s writing has been published in the anthology Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering. Her photographs are widely used in the Odyssey Guide to the Kyrgyz Republic.
Saffia has had articles published in a range of newspapers and magazines including the Telegraph, Traveller and Juno.
She is currently devoting her focus to her three young children but is researching what she hopes will be her next book, a fictional mum’s diary. Mothers and housewives have become stereotyped in modern literature as being demented or desperate, proud to be exhaustingly scatty and never in control, self-obsessed with their own neuroses. Saffia hopes to create a more reasoned heroine. With three children, “Emmeline” will of course have stresses and periods of chaos in her life but her story will share the humour found in simply raising children and the issues you encounter, without creating a whirlwind of disasters.
Saffia also hopes to publish the prequel to Revolution Baby, Puddles in the Desert. This book will tell the story of how she left her legal career to become a housewife in southern Egypt.